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As I’ve traveled across Minnesota in recent months, Minnesotans have made it clear to me just how important health care is to them, their families, and their communities. They want to know that when they are sick or injured they can get the care they need.

Because health care is so important, most Minnesotans understand what’s at stake as they’ve watched congressional Republicans continue (the) push to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a plant that will rip health coverage from 23 million people, raise health costs, gut Medicaid and eliminate nationwide protections for people with re-existing conditions.

I have had meetings in large and small Minnesota communities during which I’ve heard parents tearfully describe their struggle to get care for family members with chronic health conditions and their anxiety about the financial and emotional burden of supporting an elderly loved one in a nursing home.  They are worried about what the Republican plan would mean to them. Continue reading “The health care debate affects all of us”